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Happy Father's Day 🖤

Amazing.

“the increase is driven by a combination of worsening housing shortages, drug toxicity and limited access to health care.” #bcpoli #toxicdrugs

This 📊 on severance agreements at the City of #Vancouver is a pretty stark indicator of scale of the recent job cuts there – and it doesn't include union staff... City also refused to provide a $$$ value for the cost of those 79 severance agreements. #vanpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Wow

So cool. Striking visuals & such an effective use of audio in reporting… #dataviz 🐋 🔊 Dive Into a Very Noisy Sea With Some Very Rare Whales www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Whoa 😵‍💫

RIP MS

The normalization of far-right ideas continues as Curtis Yarvin and Lauren Southern are invited to a glitzy tech conference in Vancouver - which several Canadian politicians also attended. Full story here, no paywall: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Trying a little something different recently. My latest 📈 datacomic 📉 – a (very) brief look at the latest #pressfreedom index from Reporters Without Borders @rsf-interfr.bsky.social #dataviz #comic #data

Vancouver Coastal Health secures new location for Thomus Donaghy Overdose Prevention Site at 900 Helmcken. Previous location at 1060 Howe responded to 480 ODs, closed Jan 31. Lease begins June 1. Mayor Ken Sim moving urgent motion today directing city staff to use all tools to prevent its opening.

FortisBC’s pipeline project near Squamish dumped 3 oil tankers-worth more copper & aluminum-filled effluent into a creek than its permit allowed, according to its own water quality reports: vancouversun.com/news/fortisb... #environmentalpollution #waterpollution #bcpoli

Inside the Fiery End of Vancouver Island's Last Coal Mine 🔥 ⛰️ from @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

40 years since it opened, what is the Expo legacy? "Legacy of '86: Expo helped shape our little coastal town into a global city, but at what expense?" as told by Dan Fumano via @vancouversun.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/legacy-...

Love this (& not just b/c it has maps! 🗺️ ) Well said by @vancolour.bsky.social #bcpoli

Nerd lol 🤣

October 1, 2025 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“In a sentence, it has chosen to save money over lives.” #vanpoli #vancouver

"'Downtown is stabilizing': Mixed signals from latest downtown Vancouver business report" feat @downtownvan.bsky.social and told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/mixed-s...

Maple syrup mysteries are far & away my favourite true crime sub-genre 🍁 😝 www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/g...

"Opposition to supportive housing mounts at municipalities across Metro Vancouver" as told by @isabellazavarise.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Good lord, pls no.

Sometimes 3D #dataviz is just the way to go 🤠 I created this illustration for @sciam.bsky.social December '25 issue on rare earth elements and how much of it is estimably left. Comparing the already produced with how much is in reserve. As always great to be working with @jenchristiansen.com

This is deeply disturbing is so many ways 😡 “affiliated active clubs have claimed to know my home address and threatened to share it, raising concerns that I might have to uproot my life and move.” The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada via thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Vancouver mayor Ken Sim sued for defamation after accusing a colleague of handing out illegal drugs on Xmas 🎄 💊 😮 #vanpoli #vancouver vancouversun.com/news/sean-or...

“There’s some really bad stuff in here that I think erodes transparency in British Columbia.” #bcpoli #foi BC Government Accused of a Stealth Attack on Freedom of Information via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Amidst all this real estate wealth, why all this cultural (with others) poverty "From street parties to fireworks: Why Vancouver’s festival scene is on shaky ground" as told by Sarah Grochowski via @vancouversun.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/why-van...

“these aren’t numbers, these are people, and it’s a new person dying every time.” #bcpoli #toxicdrugs thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

“The news conference began at 2 p.m., and by 2:05 p.m., the mayor had disappeared.” #vanpoli

🚨 All the car free days 🚫🚗in #vancouver are cancelled this year 😢 vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

Oof. Drug poisoning calls to B.C. EHS have doubled since 2016 #toxicdrugs #bcpoli vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

After revealing LNG Canada is flaring far above permitted levels, we went to experts. What they told us about a three-year fix — and the role of the BC Energy Regulator — raises new questions about timelines and enforcement. thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-f... #bcpoli

“We’re at a point in this country in Canada where we have the largest white nationalist movement that has ever existed in this country’s history.” Yikes. Great reporting from @jenstden.bsky.social tho #bcpoli #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Health officials think medetomidine, a sedative used for aggresive animals, is behind a second spike of drug poisonings to hit #BritishColumbia in two months #toxicdrugs #dataviz vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Internal documents show LNG Canada is burning a lot more natural gas than expected — while repeatedly saying the situation is ‘normal.’ Get the story behind the story in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-l...

Daaaaammmmmn… 😍 www.reddit.com/r/britishcol...

“As we stand outside this courthouse, stepping into five weeks of trial, we know the legitimate right of journalists to do their job, to perform their vital role in our democracy, is at stake.” — Narwhal co-founder Carol Linnitt on our case against the RCMP: thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom/

Canada-wide, U.S.-bound flights were down 13.5 per cent this past November, compared to the same period in 2024.

🚨🚨🚨 Transit dataviz! 🚨🚨🚨 Lookup the average per-passenger cost for every #translink bus route in MetroVancouver 📊 🤓 #transit #dataviz #datavisualization #metrovancouver Special thanks to @denisagar.bsky.social from @movementyvr.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Sunrise Market Is a Rare Gem. And a Dying Breed via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Beautiful set of pictures for “photos of the century” from @theobserveruk.bsky.social 📸 #photography #photojournalism observer.co.uk/culture/phot...

“The only reason Trans Mountain looks like it’s making a profit is that most of the debt has been moved off their books,” said Thomas Gunton. Great read from @zoeyunker.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

"It takes a village: How Vancouver plans to make its neighbourhoods feel more 'connected'" as told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

Watch Vancouver’s hardest-working shared bike 🚲 travel 17,300+ km in a minute & 19 seconds #bikevancouver #bikeyvr #cycling #dataviz Read more about bike #1079 here! vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...

How the Finns ended pedestrian traffic deaths in Helsinki #visionzero www.not-ship.com/email/5f9ec5...

Dataviz 📊 meets crosswalk 🚶🏽‍♂️ #datvosualization #visonzero www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/10/this...